The Minister of Minority Affairs has informed the Lok Sabha about the Parsi Population in India.<\/span><\/p>\n As per the Census, the population of the Parsi (Zoroastrian) community decreased from 69,601 in the Census 2001 to 57,264 in the Census 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n Nodal Ministry: <\/b>Ministry of Minority Affairs\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Type<\/b>: Central Sector Scheme<\/span><\/p>\n Aim:<\/b> To <\/span>contain the population decline of Parsis in India by adopting a scientific protocol and structured interventions, to stabilize their population and increase the population of Parsis in India.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Components:<\/b> The Scheme has three components:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Advocacy –<\/b> It includes counselling of couples with fertility, marriage, family and elderly counselling including workshops on relationship management, parenting, drug awareness etc.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Health of Community <\/b>– to provide financial assistance to Parsi parents to meet the expenses towards cr\u00e8che\/child care, assistance to elderly etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u2013 Medical Assistance <\/b>– This includes financial assistance for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) which also includes In-vitro Fertilization and Intracytoplasmic Injection (ICS) and other modes including surrogacy.<\/span><\/p>\n Source<\/b>: The post is based on an article \u201c<\/b>Declining Parsi Population in the Country<\/b>\u201d <\/b>published in the PIB <\/b>on 21st March 2022<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is the News? The Minister of Minority Affairs has informed the Lok Sabha about the Parsi Population in India. About Parsi Population As per the Census, the population of the Parsi (Zoroastrian) community decreased from 69,601 in the Census 2001 to 57,264 in the Census 2011. About Jiyo Parsi Scheme Nodal Ministry: Ministry of… Continue reading Declining Parsi Population in the Country<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9,959],"tags":[3590],"class_list":["post-175280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","category-schemes","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700797269,"cached_date":1704932882},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}About Parsi Population<\/b><\/h5>\n
About Jiyo Parsi Scheme<\/b><\/h5>\n